Many important electrocatalytic processes are structure sensitive since they take place at a different rate on electrode surfaces of different orientation.This is particularly evident in the case of oxygen reduction on gold in basic media.The 4 e~- reduction to OH~- only takes place on (100) type sites.Conversely on the other orientations the reaction is limited to the transfer of only 2 electrons,the final product being HO_2~-.
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